short是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 短的， 矮的； (of) 缺乏， 不足n. (pl. ) 短裤，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.
-- After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh.
-- He would have snapped them short off in a min-ute, like sticks of sealing-wax.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In those days, travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a rob-ber or in league with robbers.
-- The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most decided negative, made a decided scramble for it, and the three other horses followed suit.
-- Neither did he wear anything more on his head than his own crisply-curling short dark hair.
-- Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine.
-- And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To it the space between the heavenly bodies is not greater than the distance between the homes of our friends in town is for us, even if they live a short way from each other; such an electric shock in the heart, however, costs us the use of the body here below; un-less, like the watchman of East Street, we happen to have on the Shoes of Fortune.
-- A Moment of Head Importance An Evening's 'Dramatic Readings' A Most Strange Journey very inhabitant of Copenhagen knows, from personal Einspection, how the entrance to Frederick's Hospital looks; but as it is possible that others, who are not Co-penhagen people, may also read this little work, we will beforehand give a short description of it.
-- The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole cre-62 Andersen's Fairy Talesation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatu-ral.
-- 'I came from the wood this winter; I am in my prime, and am only rather short for my age.'
-- An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "On the table," replied Matvey, glancing with inquiring sympathy at his master; and, after a short pause, he added with a sly smile, "They've sent from the carriage-jobbers."
-- The liberal party said that in Russia everything is wrong, and certainly Stepan Arkadyevitch had many debts and was decidedly short of money.
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- Even now, in the short time she had been in the nursery, the English governess and Matrona Philimonovna had succeeded in putting several questions to her, which did not admit of delay, and which only she could answer: "What were the children to put on for their walk?
-- Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother's room above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky boulevard, dressed in their satin cloaks, Dolly in a long one, Natalia in a half-long one, and Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly-drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders; why it was they had to walk about the Tversky boulevard escorted by a footman with a gold cockade in his hat--all this and much more that was done in their mysterious world he did not understand, but he was sure that everything that was done there was very good, and he was in love precisely with the mystery of the proceedings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is situated in the bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his office in his own.
-- Passepartout saw, too, begging friars, long-robed pilgrims, and simple civilians, with their warped and jet-black hair, big heads, long busts, slender legs, short stature, and complexions varying from copper-colour to a dead white, but never yellow, like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese widely differ.
-- "You must remember that, since we started, we have kept up hot fires in all our furnaces, and, though we had coal enough to go on short steam from New York to Bordeaux, we haven't enough to go with all steam from New York to Liverpool."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. A. DeWitt Tubbs was tremendously whiskered on all visible spots save his nose and temples and the palms of his hands, short but passionately whiskered, like a Scotch terrier.
-- It was too late for anything short of antitoxin or tracheotomy.
-- We could stick it out, and I would, except that life is short and I think I'm a good worker in some ways.
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